So says one of their leaders in today’s news release on PRN.
Judge for yourself.
They’ve published a list of recommendations for the BLM covering ethical and effective wild horse and burro management.
It was developed at the SOWH Conference in Reno where there was no condemnation of the Virginia Range mass sterilization program, despite its proximity to the hotel-casino.
The page includes a form that will add your name to the signatories.
Western Horse Watchers offers the following suggestions as a starting point for meaningful discussion.
- Confine the ranchers to their base properties in a year-round off season
- Restore the WHB Act to its original form
- Neutralize the influence of farm bureaus, stock grower’s associations, public lands councils and wildlife groups on government
- Acquire base properties as they come on the market and flip the grazing preference to horses or burros
- Keep the pesticide pushers off the public lands
A guiding principle in the SOWH recommendations is that they could be implemented without any changes to policy and law.
The cover letter was not addressed to anyone in the Department of Agriculture, which is responsible for wild horses and burros on Forest Service lands.
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